September 2019

What is R?

“R is a research tool for the analysis and visualisation of data”

What is RStudio?

Why use it?

Why use it: open (free!)

Why use it: community

Why use it: versatility

Mapping (pacakge: sf)

Why use it: versatility

Online dashboards (package: shiny), gif source: rcatlord

Why use it: versatility

Text analysis (package: tidytext), image source: Jakub Glinka

Why use it: versatility

Aoristic analysis (package: aoristic)

Why use it: versatility

Longitudinal clustering (package: akmedoids)

Why use it: versatility

Longitudinal clustering (package: crimCV), image source: Andrew Wheeler

Why use it: versatility

Spatial cluster analysis (package: spdep)

Why use it: versatility

Concentration measures for crime data (package: lorenzgini)

Why wouldn’t you use it?

RStudio interface

Live demo.

Packages: tidyverse

Packages: crimedata

Installing packages

install.packages('tidyverse')

Installing packages

install.packages('crimedata')